Carbon dioxide emissions per capita (tonnes) UAE 25.0
Carbon dioxide emissions per capita (tonnes) Canada 16.3
This is what comes of not having mandatory emission control devices on camels.
Posted 08 July 2013 - 09:05 AM
Carbon dioxide emissions per capita (tonnes) UAE 25.0
Carbon dioxide emissions per capita (tonnes) Canada 16.3
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Posted 08 July 2013 - 09:14 AM
Just because we have lots of power does not mean we should sell it to ourselves for low rates. Just like Alberta should not have cheap gasoline prices.
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Posted 08 July 2013 - 09:15 AM
...and I certainly see no good reason to base our pricing on what someone in Ontario or Nova Scotia is paying.
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Posted 08 July 2013 - 09:21 AM
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Posted 08 July 2013 - 12:02 PM
No, we should sell it to ourselves at a rate that pays for the cost of production and accounts for future upgrades, improvement and maintenance. I have no problem adding a small "profit" to add to the public coffers but I see no reason whatsoever to make private profit a feature of a public resource and I certainly see no good reason to base our pricing on what someone in Ontario or Nova Scotia is paying.
Can't say I disagree with this. I'm not sure why we should be expected to pay what someone else somewhere else is paying. The world just doesn't work that way, otherwise housing prices in Thunder Bay would be on par with housing prices in Victoria.
Posted 08 July 2013 - 09:47 PM
http://www.arabianbu...orst-52827.html
"Two factors point to a worsening air pollution situation in Dubai - the rapid pace of urbanisation and motorisation. Dubai's statistical data showed that motor vehicles increased by an annual average of about 12 percent. Dubai has about 541 vehicles per thousand population, which is higher than New York (444), London (345) and Singapore (111)," Salman said.
Posted 09 July 2013 - 04:15 AM
And you think this is caused by low gas prices? That is one hell of a stretch
Posted 09 July 2013 - 07:54 AM
Come on guys.. economics 101... why sell it to ourselves for 5 cents when we can make a killing selling it elsewhere?
Lake Side Buoy - LEGO Nut - History Nerd - James Bay resident
Posted 09 July 2013 - 08:21 AM
I may not be an economist but clearly you missed something: we need power. We are not talking about what rate to charge others we are talking about what rate to charge ourselves for the power produced here using our natural resources. We cannot sell our power for high rates and then buy power for ourselves more cheaply from elsewhere to supply our own needs.
There are good reasons to charge more than the bare minimum cost of production including discouraging waste, investing in future technologies or just supporting other government services but "market prices" are no more than guideline for a maximum price for ourselves.
If we have spare capacity then by all means sell it at what the market will bear but that is not what we are talking about.
Posted 09 July 2013 - 08:27 AM
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The $60-million replacement of some 9,400 poles with wooden ones will happen across B.C. during the next 10 years.
Posted 09 July 2013 - 09:20 AM
$6382 per pole.
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Posted 09 July 2013 - 09:32 AM
Posted 09 July 2013 - 09:54 AM
Come on guys.. economics 101. We should pay the same as we CAN SELL IT TO ONTARIO OR NOVA SCOTIA FOR. ie. if we "make" it for 5 cents/kwh, and Ontario or California is willing to pay 12 cents/kwh for it, why sell it to ourselves for 5 cents when we can make a killing selling it elsewhere? To ensure that we don't "waste" this profit, we sell it to ourselves for a similar price as others are willing to pay , in order to meets our needs, but also maximize revenues for any excess power.
That goes for electricity, coal, gold, lumber, diamonds, fish, whatever. The world DOES work that way.
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Posted 09 July 2013 - 10:45 AM
Every tiny bit of a price increase (to ourselves) actually means that we conserve more.
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Posted 09 July 2013 - 10:55 AM
But the world doesn't work that way.
Posted 09 July 2013 - 11:23 AM
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